This week, I learned that I need to replace all four tires on my car. Apparently, age has gotten the best of them and a bit of “dry rot” has settled in. Since I work out of my home, I don’t drive my car as much as I used to. 

While it was an unexpected expense, I’m very grateful to have found out before my children and I head to Long Island for the holiday. Speaking of age, this year’s annual physical revealed that I have lost an inch off of my stature. I am officially a “5’2, eyes of blue” gal.

Apparently, age has had an impact on my body as well as my tires. They say good things come in small packages so that’s my story and I’m sticking with it! 

The things of this world will eventually wear out. (1 Corinthians 7:31) Nothing tangible is meant to last forever. Yet, there is one thing that will never get old. It will never experience dry rot. It will never shrink. It will never run out.

What is this ageless thing? God’s love. 

“Long before He laid down earth’s foundations, [God] had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love.” (Ephesians 1:4 MSG)

I came across this Scripture this week and it really hit home. I’m certain that I’ve read it many times, but that’s the beauty of God’s Word. It’s alive! Every time you read it, He reveals something new to you.

Let’s park on this verse for a moment.

Before God formed the earth and all the galaxies, He was thinking about you and me. Isn’t that amazing? I mean, seriously! Before He formed the entire universe, He was planning for His family.

This week was my son’s birthday. I thought back to the time when I was pregnant and all of the things I planned before his arrival. I remembered how excited I was about how to decorate his room, filling it with fun and colorful things that I thought he would enjoy.

The verse in Ephesians perfectly illustrates that God was thinking about the same thing when He “knit us together in our mother’s womb.” He was thinking about us long before any of us took our first breath. He was planning our home and all of the things He knew we would enjoy.

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139:13-14 NIV)

This week, I want to encourage you to meditate on these Scriptures. Wouldn’t they be a great topic of conversation around the holiday meal? Wouldn’t it be refreshing to throw out the “dry rotted” and “shrinking” topics of old and replace them with a discussion of God’s love?

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.

I pray “that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:18-19 NKJV)